Phillip Hunt becomes fourth Eagle to tear ACL

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Aug 16, 2013

The team was off Saturday, but Hunt did not practice the next three days. Hunt, 27, is likely done for the season as well. Hunt became the fourth Eagles player to suffer an ACL injury in the last three weeks, joining wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, receiver … (more)Arrelious Benn, and linebacker Jason Phillips. When asked what the differences are between track, where he was a champion discus thrower, and football, Hunt said there was more visualization in track and a lot of time between throws or events. Its tough enough to be a rookie, its even more difficult when you are going up against guys who have been playing the game for 15-plus years and from the time they were 6-years old.